Cases

In 1991, a legislative bill to allow year-round hunting of coyotes was met with controversy. Accordingly, the New York State Legislature withdrew the bill pending public input through surveys and face-to-face deliberations. The engagement strategies in this process, although not novel, were extremely innovative within a wildlife context.

The Far North Queensland’s Citizen Jury provided an opportunity for Australian citizens to deliberate on environmental issues connected with the Bloomfield Track in the Daintree region. The purpose of the FNQCJ was to understand how citizens' preferences change after deliberation.

In 2015 the City of Melbourne embarked on a refresher of their 2008 plan, Future Melbourne. The original plan laid out a vision for the city and considered how it would meet future challenges. Throughout 2016, a large-scale engagement process was facilitated to help update the plan and ensure that...

Get to Know Nuclear was a state-wide engagement in South Australia. The program engaged citizens on issues associated with the nuclear fuel cycle - mining, enrichment, energy and storage. The community engagement was initiated following a Royal Commission report that examined the issue and provided a starting point for discussion...

Infrastructure Victoria is a statutory authority set up by the Victorian state government to independently assess the state's infrastructure needs in the coming decades. The first action the agency embarked on was a community consultation in the form of two concurrent citizens' juries in two parts of Victoria. The juries...